I work for an international bank and we fixed 2-300 Y2K bugs. I know; I tested the changes & found more doing the testing. Obviously, some were more critical than others. We also upgraded release levels of system software.
I also know that some were missed. The thing is, they were attributed to something else when they occurred. Noone would admit that they had missed a Y2K bug after all the $$$ thrown at the problem.
I'm sure my situation is not unique.
case in point. We could NOT consider Cingular because they have NO coverage for entire states.
In fact their national coverage pretty much sucks.
Although we live in nyc where everyone has coverage, our daughter goes to Univ of Colorado ( Boulder ) -
no coverage there, no good for us.
the addition of AT&T wireless will fill in lots of gaps for Cingular.
space.com is also reporting it
on
ISS May Have A Leak
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Delivered-To: dfarber+@ux13.sp.cs.cmu.edu Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:24:48 -0800 (PST) From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall Subject: Students receiving cease-desists from Diebold... To: Dave Farber , Declan McCullagh
Hi Dave, Declan,
We could really use your help publicizing this.
Myself, along with students from 20 other universities are starting to receive cease and desist letters from Diebold Election Systems. A copy of the cease-and-desist letter received by MIT is here:
The letters are in response to our coordinated electronic civil disobedience effort to keep a compressed file of internal Diebold memos alive and force them to do a legal version of "whack a mole." We have other students with the files lined up ready to take our place as sites are taken down.
For more on the disobedience effort, See: http://why-war.com/features/2003/10/diebold. html
We need help getting the word out and having other institutions/ individuals post mirrors to the files. The Berkeley copies will be available here (below) until we are forced to take them down or can convince our University to fight the cease-and-desist actions on fair use grounds.
We are within the bounds of fair use as the memos are highly newsworthy and seem to implicate illegal activity on behalf of Diebold Election Systems. A more extensive legal case is available by reading Wendy Seltzer's response to one of the cease-and-desist letters:
If you are a student reading this and can host a mirror, send a link and your institution's name to info@why-war.com.
Thanks for your time, Joe
Joseph Lorenzo Hall http://pobox.com/~joehall/ Graduate Student blog: http://pobox.com/~joehall/nqb/
"If voting could really change things, it would be illegal." --Excerpt from a Diebold Election Systems internal memo. http://why-war.com/features/2003/10/diebold .html
It's been mentioned how helpful Amazon is for those
who don't live in an urban center.
What is more notable is how many small presses Amazon has saved. It has given "shelf space" to small/speciality presses who couldn't get the back dusty corner in a mall store. Some time back, more than a year, I remember reading an article which contrasted Amazon's sales with typical brick & morter bookstores. B&M's sales are 80% best sellers, 20% "others". Amazon's sales were the reverse. Good for small presses, non-mainstream writers, & folks who don't live near specialty bookstores.
I have an email address at my dialup ISP, galaxy ( gis.net ), medium size outfit here in the northeast.
I have never used this address anywhere. I have never sent email using it. I only check it to see if the ISP has sent me anything.
I receive 1 - 5 pieces of SPAM ( some xxx-rated ) a day there.
I can only assume the ISP or someone working there has "sold" that edress.
for me the best windoze interface since 3.1 was the Norton desktop replacement shell.
I still prefer the way windows 3.11 had group windows which displayed icons for a collection of aps. What I thought was stupid was that all the icons for the different groups were identical. What's the point of a visual interface if all the.../kill rant. Norton allowed one to replace group icons uniquely. It's file manager was also better
Personally, I truely dislike the menu of lists as is the case in everything since 95 was dumped upon our desktop. Others ( most probably ) will disagree. I like having my little group icons ( each unique! ) which pop open to give me the option of chosing amoung related ( I choose what's related ) aps.
As far as application execution, I'd love to see each ap run in it's own virtual memory area and have ALL it's executables clear out when I end it, no vestigages. I have no idea how/whether this is practical.
I've often used ladybugs on my housplants. I keep the bag in the fridge and just shake a few onto my plants when I need them. They stay dormant in the fridge and go into action as soon as they warm up. I think it's kind of nice having ladybugs in the house too, but I'm seriously weird. The shipment is always many more than I need, so I usually "free" some in nearby cityhall park.
IMneverHO a Lotus suite port is the ideal one. AMIPRO was always superior to WORD. The Lotus 123 spreadsheet is just as good as excell, maybe better. I think SmartSuite could be a real option for businesses, much less home users. Where I am, we're microsoft office, but with Lotus Notes for email. My wife's shop is WordPerfect & Lotus 123.
IBM has no interest in helping windows, quite the contrary. Their support has always been one of their halmarks. Few would hesitate to reccomend an IBM product in the workplace. IBM would have every reason to make it work & work well on Linux. Policically, I think there are lots of folks at IBM & IBM/Lotus who would like nothing better than putting it to M$.
The well-documented vulneribily to virus attack of Windows/outlook express/Office aps is an opening that could be attacked successfully in selling other less risky solutions.
Myself, I hope IBM is busy at work porting to/rewriting for Linux as I type.
I admit, Installer.exe has spoiled me. It picks up my existing proxy setting & bookmarks nicely. I've been using the nightly builds lately. Yes, they crash a bit, but I've preferred them to the old milestone 13.
Is there an easy to apply the talkback option to an Installer.exe installation? or What steps should I take to preserve or transfer all my settings from the previous installation?
Thanks, I'd really like to at least help by sending feedback
There is nothing wrong with having a standard GUI interface. Especially one which will allow Linux to be more accessable to the less "techie" users.
This does not preclude other GUIs. Way back in the old WIN 3.11 days, I preferred Norton Desktop. There were many other windows like shells one could use. M$ did the same thing to them it later did to netscape. It bundled the GUI into DOS/Windoze. That's what the DRDOS/Caldera lawsuit is all about. We all know WIN98 is still built atop the same old DOS.
As long as the GUI interface doesn't become part of the OS, it's not a problem. I think there is NO danger of this happening.
I have home delivery of the NYTimes, both in print & by email. I especially enjoy the way the online version allows me to email interesting articles to friends.
I also "consult" numerous online news sources including online versions of newspapers in other cities.
One way I have not evolved is that I usually print the articles to read them. For my 50+ eyes, the higher resolution of paper, not to mention the portability are much preferable to the CRT.
Hopefully in the not-to-distant-future, I will have a high resolution portable "viewer" ( powered by a tranmeta CPU *grin* ) which will replace paper for my reading pleasure.
One major difference I see is that ALL newspapers will be increasingly in competition with one another for my attention.
Excellent article. well said. I can think of an additional reason to push forward; two more "markets" in need of Linux. The two that come to my mind are the schools and the technologically/ecconomically disadvantaged. Many schools "benefit" from cast off computers donated for tax deductions or simply because people can't bear to throw away something they paid so much for. I also see them in thrift stores and the like. An efficient operating system ( Linux ) can restore value to these old PCs. But they need to be more "dummy proof". The youth in our disadvantaged areas MUST be allowed to become technologically competent. They need PCs. They need access to the internet. If they have games and/or whatever to get them started, we need to provide it. I think all of us know it's that first step which is the hardest. We need to help them make that first step. More & more cheap or free ISPs are showing up. Even a 14400 line would be great for these kids. Linux would be especially good. As they become more comfortable with our proposed comfortable fron end, they would get more adventerous. Linux is an operating system where they can begin to explore the "back end". Bright kids, some of whom are virtual prisoners in their own kids, could begin to flower & grow with the right opportunities. They could be a brighter tomorrow for us all. just another flaming liberal ranting
hominy kernels of corn, either whole or ground, from which the hull and germ have been removed by a process usually involving a caustic agent. Hominy was traditionally prepared by boiling the corn in a dilute lye solution made from wood-ash leachings until the hulls could be easily removed by hand and flushed away with running water. In the modern commercial technique, the corn is boiled in dilute sodium hydroxide, and the hulls are removed by the combined action of rotating cylinders and running water.
Wood-ash lye is still often employed in this process to impart calcium to the kernels. Hominy can be made in the home by soaking dried, shelled corn in a baking-soda solution and then removing the hulls.
Hominy is perhaps most familiar in the form of coarsely ground grits, boiled and served with butter, gravy, or syrup for breakfast or shaped into cakes and fried. Grits from white corn are processed into cornflake cereals. Hominy is also sometimes used in brewing and in the manufacture of wallpaper paste.
Slashdot Mirror
I work for an international bank and we fixed 2-300 Y2K bugs. I know; I tested the changes & found more doing the testing. Obviously, some were more critical than others. We also upgraded release levels of system software. I also know that some were missed. The thing is, they were attributed to something else when they occurred. Noone would admit that they had missed a Y2K bug after all the $$$ thrown at the problem. I'm sure my situation is not unique.
They didn't call their missile "Satan", that's the name the US military gave it.
case in point. We could NOT consider Cingular because they have NO coverage for entire states. In fact their national coverage pretty much sucks. Although we live in nyc where everyone has coverage, our daughter goes to Univ of Colorado ( Boulder ) - no coverage there, no good for us. the addition of AT&T wireless will fill in lots of gaps for Cingular.
Mission Control Alerts Station Crew to Slow Air Leak By Marcia Dunn AP Aerospace Writer posted: 08:00 pm ET 05 January 2004
Delivered-To: dfarber+@ux13.sp.cs.cmu.edu
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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:24:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Subject: Students receiving cease-desists from Diebold...
To: Dave Farber , Declan McCullagh
Hi Dave, Declan,
We could really use your help publicizing this.
Myself, along with students from 20 other universities are starting to
receive cease and desist letters from Diebold Election Systems. A copy
of the cease-and-desist letter received by MIT is here:
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~jhall/temp/diebol
The letters are in response to our coordinated electronic civil
disobedience effort to keep a compressed file of internal Diebold
memos alive and force them to do a legal version of "whack a mole."
We have other students with the files lined up ready to take our place
as sites are taken down.
For more on the disobedience effort, See:
http://why-war.com/features/2003/10/diebold
We need help getting the word out and having other institutions/
individuals post mirrors to the files. The Berkeley copies will be
available here (below) until we are forced to take them down or can
convince our University to fight the cease-and-desist actions on fair
use grounds.
http://sims.berkeley.edu/~jhall/nqb/archives/li
http://sims.berkeley.edu/~parkert/misc/list
We are within the bounds of fair use as the memos are highly
newsworthy and seem to implicate illegal activity on behalf of Diebold
Election Systems. A more extensive legal case is available by reading
Wendy Seltzer's response to one of the cease-and-desist letters:
http://www.chillingeffects.org/responses/notice
If you are a student reading this and can host a mirror, send a link
and your institution's name to info@why-war.com
Thanks for your time,
Joe
Joseph Lorenzo Hall http://pobox.com/~joehall/
Graduate Student blog: http://pobox.com/~joehall/nqb/
"If voting could really change things, it would be illegal."
--Excerpt from a Diebold Election Systems internal memo.
http://why-war.com/features/2003/10/diebol
The Jargon Dictionary
I also agree. post should be a +2 0r 3 not a -1
there's an article in the NYTimes's Circuits section today: From Inside, Palm Makes a New Start It's an interesting read
disclaimer: unabashed fan of Amazon
It's been mentioned how helpful Amazon is for those who don't live in an urban center.
What is more notable is how many small presses Amazon has saved. It has given "shelf space" to small/speciality presses who couldn't get the back dusty corner in a mall store. Some time back, more than a year, I remember reading an article which contrasted Amazon's sales with typical brick & morter bookstores. B&M's sales are 80% best sellers, 20% "others". Amazon's sales were the reverse. Good for small presses, non-mainstream writers, & folks who don't live near specialty bookstores.
Dave Farber's mailing list passed along Microsoft's Hotmail Is Red Hot From Worm from Newsbytes
I have an email address at my dialup ISP, galaxy ( gis.net ), medium size outfit here in the northeast. I have never used this address anywhere. I have never sent email using it. I only check it to see if the ISP has sent me anything. I receive 1 - 5 pieces of SPAM ( some xxx-rated ) a day there. I can only assume the ISP or someone working there has "sold" that edress.
for me the best windoze interface since 3.1 was the Norton desktop replacement shell.
... /kill rant. Norton allowed one to replace group icons uniquely. It's file manager was also better
I still prefer the way windows 3.11 had group windows which displayed icons for a collection of aps. What I thought was stupid was that all the icons for the different groups were identical. What's the point of a visual interface if all the
Personally, I truely dislike the menu of lists as is the case in everything since 95 was dumped upon our desktop. Others ( most probably ) will disagree. I like having my little group icons ( each unique! ) which pop open to give me the option of chosing amoung related ( I choose what's related ) aps.
As far as application execution, I'd love to see each ap run in it's own virtual memory area and have ALL it's executables clear out when I end it, no vestigages. I have no idea how/whether this is practical.
Why didn't they try an ATI rage pro with 32MB?
Do these not work on Linux?
I just hope it has a decent treebeard
*grin*
I've often used ladybugs on my housplants. I keep the bag in the fridge and just shake a few onto my plants when I need them. They stay dormant in the fridge and go into action as soon as they warm up. I think it's kind of nice having ladybugs in the house too, but I'm seriously weird. The shipment is always many more than I need, so I usually "free" some in nearby cityhall park.
you can buy from www.garden.com. Here is a link for "beneficial insects"
I also used to get them from Burpee, but I haven't checked ther in some years
IMneverHO a Lotus suite port is the ideal one. AMIPRO was always superior to WORD. The Lotus 123 spreadsheet is just as good as excell, maybe better. I think SmartSuite could be a real option for businesses, much less home users. Where I am, we're microsoft office, but with Lotus Notes for email. My wife's shop is WordPerfect & Lotus 123.
IBM has no interest in helping windows, quite the contrary. Their support has always been one of their halmarks. Few would hesitate to reccomend an IBM product in the workplace. IBM would have every reason to make it work & work well on Linux. Policically, I think there are lots of folks at IBM & IBM/Lotus who would like nothing better than putting it to M$.
The well-documented vulneribily to virus attack of Windows/outlook express/Office aps is an opening that could be attacked successfully in selling other less risky solutions.
Myself, I hope IBM is busy at work porting to/rewriting for Linux as I type.
I admit, Installer.exe has spoiled me. It picks up my existing proxy setting & bookmarks nicely. I've been using the nightly builds lately. Yes, they crash a bit, but I've preferred them to the old milestone 13.
Is there an easy to apply the talkback option to an Installer.exe installation? or What steps should I take to preserve or transfer all my settings from the previous installation?
Thanks, I'd really like to at least help by sending feedback
sorry, the links on their page doesn't seem to work. Try these for the referenced items
Download the Screen Fonts
The Georgia and Verdana Fonts
Matthew Carter, Font Designer
Georgia and Verdana are two typefaces designed for optimal use online.
see Typefaces Designed For The Screen
There is nothing wrong with having a standard GUI interface. Especially one which will allow Linux to be more accessable to the less "techie" users.
This does not preclude other GUIs. Way back in the old WIN 3.11 days, I preferred Norton Desktop. There were many other windows like shells one could use. M$ did the same thing to them it later did to netscape. It bundled the GUI into DOS/Windoze. That's what the DRDOS/Caldera lawsuit is all about. We all know WIN98 is still built atop the same old DOS.
As long as the GUI interface doesn't become part of the OS, it's not a problem. I think there is NO danger of this happening.
Open source/open operating system/open GUIs.
I have home delivery of the NYTimes, both in print & by email. I especially enjoy the way the online version allows me to email interesting articles to friends.
I also "consult" numerous online news sources including online versions of newspapers in other cities.
One way I have not evolved is that I usually print the articles to read them. For my 50+ eyes, the higher resolution of paper, not to mention the portability are much preferable to the CRT.
Hopefully in the not-to-distant-future, I will have a high resolution portable "viewer" ( powered by a tranmeta CPU *grin* ) which will replace paper for my reading pleasure.
One major difference I see is that ALL newspapers will be increasingly in competition with one another for my attention.
Excellent article. well said. I can think of an additional reason to push forward; two more "markets" in need of Linux. The two that come to my mind are the schools and the technologically/ecconomically disadvantaged. Many schools "benefit" from cast off computers donated for tax deductions or simply because people can't bear to throw away something they paid so much for. I also see them in thrift stores and the like. An efficient operating system ( Linux ) can restore value to these old PCs. But they need to be more "dummy proof". The youth in our disadvantaged areas MUST be allowed to become technologically competent. They need PCs. They need access to the internet. If they have games and/or whatever to get them started, we need to provide it. I think all of us know it's that first step which is the hardest. We need to help them make that first step. More & more cheap or free ISPs are showing up. Even a 14400 line would be great for these kids. Linux would be especially good. As they become more comfortable with our proposed comfortable fron end, they would get more adventerous. Linux is an operating system where they can begin to explore the "back end". Bright kids, some of whom are virtual prisoners in their own kids, could begin to flower & grow with the right opportunities. They could be a brighter tomorrow for us all. just another flaming liberal ranting
Grits are ground hominy.
from encyc Britanica:
hominy kernels of corn, either whole or ground, from which the hull and germ have been removed by a process usually involving a caustic agent. Hominy was traditionally prepared by boiling the corn in a dilute lye solution made from wood-ash leachings until the hulls could be easily removed by hand and flushed away with running water. In the modern commercial technique, the corn is boiled in dilute sodium hydroxide, and the hulls are removed by the combined action of rotating cylinders and running water.
Wood-ash lye is still often employed in this process to impart calcium to the kernels. Hominy can be made in the home by soaking dried, shelled corn in a baking-soda solution and then removing the hulls.
Hominy is perhaps most familiar in the form of coarsely ground grits, boiled and served with butter, gravy, or syrup for breakfast or shaped into cakes and fried. Grits from white corn are processed into cornflake cereals. Hominy is also sometimes used in brewing and in the manufacture of wallpaper paste.
(free reg. req'd) Evidence Suggests Web Attacks Were Work of More Than One Group By MATT RICHTEL WITH JOEL BRINKLEY FROM FRIDAY'S TIMES As attacks against prominent Web sites appeared to be tapering off, law enforcement and computer security experts said evidence now suggested that the digital assaults had been the work of more than one person or group.
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is looking for MP3 files and reporting back to momma
;-)